'The Moon-Voyage', also known as 'From the Earth to the Moon', is a novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three peopleβthe Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poetβin a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing.